Cannot get any voice attack commands to work in Elite Dangerous

[mazterbozz]

Hello, i'm looking for help, I have installed the full version of VoiceAttack & also the HCS Voice Pack, I have them installed on my C: drive with Elite Dangerous. I can issue commands in game but nothing happens. I am running the voice program in Windows 7 & I am running the program as an administrator. I am using a Hotas Joystick & throttle which are enabled in game.

It matters not whether I send the commands to an active window or the game.

Any idea's? Thanks.

[mazterbozz]

I have already uninstalled Elite Dangerous, VoiceAttack & the voice pack from my D: drive & installed everything on C: The controller I am using is the Thrustmater Hotas Warthog, which was just selected from the drop down menu in the options in game & before I changed any settings, I loaded up VoiceAttack & imported commands from the HCS voice pack. The voice commands are recognised & also in game, but the commands have no affect. ((Deploy weapons)) command should automatically work @ this point I think, but I get nothing & when I fool about with send commands to active window or the game nothing happens except for the ships computer voice command. Help!

[Luca D]

If you try with a simple profile made from scratch (so, not the Voice Pack imported one, just one with a couple of simple keypresses), does it work?
Have you set the keyboard presses as "DirectX mode", in the relevant window of VoiceAttack?
Are both ED and VA running as Administrator?

[mazterbozz]

Hi Luca D, thanks for your response, I purchased the voice pack so i did not have to mess around making profiles...did I waste my money?

I have added button presses to the 1.6.1 profile, button presses to the afterburner/boost commands on joystick button 2. I have both the game & VoiceAttack running as admin. Still no joy, seems this just works straight out of the box for everyone else.I just want to play not mess about with this..

[mazterbozz]

OK I have made a new profile with 1 command 'Afterburner's & it worked but no voice command from the ship computer & only when I set the 'A' key along with button 2 on my joystick, now how does VoiceAttack recognise analog throttle for say Impulse Engines 25%? what button on my keyboard sets that? I take it I have been dumb & not realised I had to set each individual command in the voicepack to add extra keyboard presses.

Thanks Luca for putting my on the right path. I am still bewildered by this & I really want the voicepack to work for me, I do need to learn this a little for some combat settings I would like.

[Luca D]

I don't konw exactly how the profile from the voice packs are configured, but keep in mind that VoiceAttack can read joystick button presses as shortcut for you commands, but cannot send joystick button to the program (ED or else), so you need to configure your desider actions in game as keyboard or mouse functions if you want them voice-activated

For the throttle control in ED, you need to go to the control menu and set some new bindings there yourself, and match those in your profile, because, if I remember correctly, by default the "0-25-50-75-100%" settings are not bind to anything

[mazterbozz]

Thanks Luca that all helped me greatly, all the best for the coming new year.

[-Ice]

Please remember that there are three things you need to do for VA+profile+E:D to work.

1.  Voice attack and proper profile with sounds in the proper folder.  If this is set up correctly, even OUTSIDE of the game, you can issue commands and you will hear the reply.  Try opening Notepad, say "Lower landing gear" and you will hear the response as well as see the small letter "L" in notepad.

2.  Keys bound correctly.... in the above example, if your in-game landing gear command is bound to INSERT instead of L, then you will hear the response to your command but nothing will happen.  Furthermore, if you bound your lights command to L, then "Lower landing gear" will actually trigger the lights instead!  I'm not sure what .binds file you need to use --- I built my own profile --- so maybe you should try the supplied .binds keys and see which ones work.  To do this, copy it to C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings and then select that once in the in-game UI.

3.  If you cannot find the proper .binds file, then just go into the VA profile, see what each command does, and then make sure your bindings are set to what it says.

Hope that helps!